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1 p UNITED STATES Patented September 8, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

FRANcIsBcoNvERsE, a, on CLEVELAND, omo, ASSIGNOR TO THE CONVERSE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, or CLEVELAND, OHIO, A

CORPORATION OF OHIO.

JUSTIFYINQMECHANISM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No, 738,741, dated September 8, 1903. I Application filed August 27, 1901. Serial No. 73,431. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that'I, FRANCIS B. CONVERSE, J r., a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in JustifyingMechanisms, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings. i

The object of this invention is to provide a simple, efficient, and rapidly-operating ma chine for the automatic justification of type. The term type is used herein as including both the cameo form, orordinary printers? type, and the intaglio form, or matrices in which the printing-face may be cast.

The machine is adapted to operate in conjunction with any form of type-setting machine which is capable of delivering to it an assembled line of type with interposed temporary spaces at points in the line Where regular type-spaces are to be inserted.

The complete machine comprehends the combination of the following cooperating mechanisms:

First. A suitable channel for carrying the line of type as it comes to the machine. This is preferably done by means of a combined assemblage and transferring member, which receives the line of type as set up and presents it to the other justifying mechanisms.

. The assemblage member thus makes a conmeeting element between a typesetting machine and the justifier.

. Second. A space recording mechanism which takes account of the number of spaces in the line- Third. Aline-measuring'mechanism which measures the amount by which the line set up is different in length from the desired line as justified.

Fourth. A space selecting mechanism which operates according to the number of spaces in the line and the variation in length of the line, being controlled by the two preceding mechanisms to determine the proper size of space required.

Fifth. A line-advancing mechanism to carry l the line through the justifying mechanisms.

Sixth. A spacessubstituting mechanism which acts as such line is advanced to replace the temporary spaces by permanent spaces selected of the proper thickness.

Seventh. A mechanism called the fractional spacing mechanism, (which is really a portion of the space-selecting mechanism,) effective when the line will not exactly justify with but one size of permanent space,. whereby a portion of one size and a portion of another size may be used to make the 63 proper aggregate thickness.

Eighth. .A delivery and leading mechanism operating to transfer the justified line into. the galley with or Without loads, as desired.

The present invention is concerned to various extents with all the above mechanisms, as will hereinafter clearly appear from the claims. It should be noted, however, that many of these features are dominated by claims in my prior applications, Serial Nos. 699,697, 3,280, and L124, filed December 19, 1898, January 30, 1900, and February 5, 1900, respectively, many of the features herein be, ing improvements on the corresponding mechanisms shown in one or more of said prior applications.

In the drawings the justifying system is shown as embodied in a machine for operating on ordinary printers type, and such embodimentwill now be described.

Figured is a side elevation of the justifying mechanism, illustrating also the connections between the same and some typesetting machine. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the justifying mechanism, and Fig. 3 is a rear elevation thereof. Figs. 4, 5, 6, and 7 are ver tical sections through the justifying mechanism parallel with the plane of Fig. 2, being taken on the correspondiugly-numbered lines on Fig. 1, Figs. 4 and 5 looking from the front of the machine and Figs. 6 and 7 from the rear. Fig. 8 is a vertical section parallel with the plane of Fig. 1, being substantially on the line 8 8 of Fig. 2. Fig. 9 is a side elevation in section, being substantially on the 5 offset line 9 9 of Fig. 2 and lookingtoward the right of that figure. Fig. 10 is a plan of the justifying mechanism, showing in sectionthe space-cases and the standards which may support the setting mechanism. Fig. ll isa I00, 

